Cat. No. 1005
Untitled
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- c. 1989
- Descriptive Title:
-
Horizontal and Vertical Bands
- Themes:
- Abstraction
- Techniques:
- Aquatint
- Description:
- Aquatint
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 6 15/16 x 5" (17.6 x 12.7 cm); sheet: 14 3/16 x 11 5/8" (36 x 29.5 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 3 known impressions of the only state, outside the edition
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of the only state.
- Background:
- To help Bourgeois prepare for what would be a major project together, "the puritan," Ben Shiff of Osiris, New York, provided her with test plates on which she made various technical experiments. This is one of the experiments that led to the editioned composition "Branches" a few years later.
- Former Cat. No.:
- W & S B4
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 654.1993
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY